My husband and one of our friends got a tattoo today and I went ahead and booked an appointment. So come April, I should have two little things behind my ears. Now I just need to figure out the specifics of what. Excite!

My husband and one of our friends got a tattoo today and I went ahead and booked an appointment. So come April, I should have two little things behind my ears. Now I just need to figure out the specifics of what. Excite!

Tattoo has reached the scabby, itchy stage. It's not too bad but sometimes I move my shoulders and can feel it tightening, mainly in the morning before I've put cream on it, and I'm paranoid the skin will crack or split even though that's really unlikely. At least it's in a place I can't easily scratch.

Now to be absolutely clear, The Evening Standard is an arm of the Daily Mail so their tendancy to sensationalise everything needs to be taken into account. However, this sort of story doesn't come out of nowhere. This sort of story will now put women at risk because it increases any reluctance to present with related medical issues.

We knew that FGM was happening in the UK or to British Citizens/Residents while overseas and pushed through legislation criminalising it. We then got ourselves of in the embarrassing position of clocking up exactly no prosecutions in the decade since the law kicked in despite an estimated 74,000 instances in that decade. Criticisms all round, especially levelled at the Health sector who would likely be the first agency to be in a position to report on breaches of the law. Looks like they've overreacted and turned into a bunch of asshats. It'll be a gloriously shitty day when this all blows up in our stupid faces.

I've been considering getting a tattoo but I know I'd want one that is hideable, (specifically have thought about getting a Cedar of Lebanon on my upper back) but the question I keep coming back to is then why do it?

I have a tattoo on the top of my back that is almost always hidden and I can't see it without a mirror. I still love knowing it's there and the placement is part of that. What it was and its size suited that choice. You should get a tattoo for you and not others, that's more than enough reason to get it the way you want it.

Alright, end of the month I'll get some overtime paid off and depending on how many other things I might need to pay with that, there might be enough money left over to get my first tattoo. This is exciting!